Firm seeks buyers for aircraft

As the global airline industry is going through crisis, leading to the liquidation of many, indications have emerged that Malev Hungarian Airlines has approached Arik Air to buy some of its airplanes.

Investigations revealed that Malevolent Hungarian Airlines, which is in liquidation, is seeking buyers for two of its aircraft: Boeing 737 – 800 , but the offer was rejected by Arik Air on the grounds that the aircraft first generation types ranging from eight to 10 years.

Arik Air’s rejection of the offer to buy the aircraft, it was learnt, is predicated that the aircraft type is at variance with the aircraft type on the fleet of Arik Air.

It was further gathered that at the time of the liquidation of the Malevolent Hungarian Airlines, it had 22 aircraft in its fleet, which are being kept.

There are also indications that some of the aircraft could find their way to Nigeria through other carriers, which source for aircraft held in storage by either liquidated carriers or airlines, which are ready to dispose their airplanes when in crisis.

The desire to acquire used aircraft from foreign carriers has become fashionable among Nigerian carriers because of the prohibitive costs of getting new airplanes either from the shelf or on order from major aircraft manufacturers.

Another factor that accounts for this is the seeming difficulty of Nigerian carriers to get lessors release aircraft to them because of high cost of lease rentals and insurance, which has increased, after the crash of Dana Air and the collapse of Air Nigeria, making Nigeria one of the high risk countries among aviation investors.

anyway, it may sound incredible to reject the offer based on the fact that their is great disparity on the class of the aircraft meanwhile, its also a strategy by arik to show integrity. i dont fink the reason purported is the truth.